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Education opens your mind to the complexities of life, to the fact that there are few blacks and whites in the world, only many shades of gray. In the process of earning a PhD -- a requirement for becoming a professor -- and conducting our research, many of us travel extensively, we are exposed to a wide variety of people, cultures, points of view. That experience genuinely broadens the mind and develops intellectual and cultural sophistication that is simply not compatible with narrow-minded conservatism. The fact of the matter is that there ARE conservative professors, but they tend to be LESS conservative than conservatives in other walks of life. That is because the experience of academic life and research militates against that kind of often-rigid and reactionary conservatism.

The second reason is that the academic life tends to attract more liberal-minded individuals in the first place. It's the kind of career that simply appeals to the already well-educated and well-read, people who are interested in research, in complexities both scientific and cultural, in studying the past or improving the future via teaching or your own work. So, your average entering class of PhD students in any department is going to include a fair number of liberals.

Though as I said, there are a fair number of conservative academics, too.

First a person would have to graduate grammar school. Approximately 25% of conservatives flunk out. Then a person would have to graduate middle school; where another 25% can't pass. Then high school; yep you guessed it 25% conservative drop out rate. Then they must get a bachelor's degree; 20% failure. Then a masters; 5% failure. This leaves no conservatives smart enough (or as they say 'smaht nuf') to get a doctorate (PhD). That's why there are no conservatives at universities and colleges throughout or land. They're kind of like the Nazzis, except more extreme, there just arn't many smart ones. TRUE. TRUE.

Conservatives feel like colleges are only there to press a political agenda, proving first and foremost that conservatives have never been to a college, which is generally one of the prerequisites for being able to teach there.

Many universities encourage "open thought", which is a threat to conservatives.

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The Conservative don't like education, and so there re very few educated people that are fit and educated enough to teach at the college/university level... Conservative professors are hired through Affirmative Action and hired even though they are totally unprepared and incapable and unqualified to teach kindergarten due to ineptitude, incompetence, lack of education and intellectual capacity (case in point: Supreme Court Justice Clarence who can barely read and write and even his college classmates used to wonder how such an illiterate could even get accepted in college let alone law school). Besides, Conservatives are constipated and flatulent.

In all fairness, I must say that some Conservatives are nice (but... stooooooooooopid!)